Example sentences of "[was/were] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 2 | Overlooking the point that if it were the latter he could clarify the matter on the next round , he settled for a direct raise to Four Hearts . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , despite the fact that a National Government led by MacDonald was the preferred choice of at most one of the three party leaders , the King now knew that both Baldwin and Samuel would be prepared to serve under MacDonald , were the latter willing to continue as Prime Minister . |
| 4 | This is a penal measure and the courts must take care to see that this former expression is not treated as if it were the latter . ’ |
| 5 | Yet another suspect category were the many spetsy ( bourgeois specialists ) who worked for the Commissariat . |
| 6 | More damaging still were the many tales of the poor morale and ‘ hostile attitude ’ of the bombed-out population . |
| 7 | More of interest were the many memorials to well-known Ascendancy families , the Carys , the Kirkwoods and the Shaws . |
| 8 | The Fusion bonded process , of which Stoddards are the leaders in technology , was also on display as were the many ancillary processes required to make a finished carpet of quality . |
| 9 | Taking their seats beneath their personal banners were the former socialist prime ministers Lords Callaghan and Wilson , the past Conservative cabinet ministers Lords Carrington and Hailsham , two departed governors of the Bank of England , a representative from the retired top brass of each of the services , two White Commonwealth knights , the explorers Lords Hunt and Shackleton . |
| 10 | The main casualties of the reshuffle were the former Home Secretary Kenneth Baker , former Defence Secretary Tom King , and former Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke . |
| 11 | Even though the ranks of labourers were thinner and the level of wealth higher than in the west , tinning was not unknown in eastern parts , though parishes containing tinners differed little from ones that did not : not only were the former only slightly poorer in East hundred , but in West and Trigg they were actually rather better off . |
| 12 | Among those executed , several of whom had been detained before the " coup attempt " , were the former Air Force commander , Maj.-Gen. |
| 13 | Present at the ceremony were the former Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega Saavedra , Negale Kisiliov , a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union , and Nelson Mandela , president of the African National Congress ( ANC ) , who was presented with the Order of José Marti , Cuba 's highest decoration . |
| 14 | Although the PS generally backed Mitterrand 's prosecution of the war , two notable exceptions were the former Foreign Minister ( PS ) , Claude Cheysson , and the Defence Minister , Jean-Pierre Chevènement who resigned on Jan. 29 [ ibid ; see also p. 38299 ] . |
| 15 | Among the first countries to recognize Ukraine as an independent state were the former Soviet republics of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , other eastern European countries , Croatia , and Canada ( which had a large Ukrainian minority ) . |
| 16 | Its 120 passengers , among whom were the former Portuguese President António Eanes , and students , politicians and reporters from 21 countries , intended to lay a wreath at the site of the November massacre , the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili . |
| 17 | Also under discussion were the former Soviet Union 's foreign debt commitments . |
| 18 | Also accused were the former head of the state security police ( the Stasi ) , Erich Mielke , 84 , former Prime Minister Willi Stoph , 78 , former Defence Minister Heinz Kessler , 72 , his deputy Fritz Streletz , 66 , and the former regional party leader in Suhl , Hans Albrecht , 72 . |
| 19 | Among the critics were the former ministers Michael Jopling , Peter Bottomley , Michael Spicer and Tom King , as well as Winston Churchill . |
| 20 | If she spoke , if once there were the least word , the least crack or fissure , upon which tears and screams could follow , she would have lost her one advantage , her source of ordinary viable life , and would be utterly undone and destroyed . |
| 21 | Jeers were the least of it . |
| 22 | Simple requests for such increases were the least of the shipowners ' concerns , while on shipboard conditions there could be no cause for complaint because of the " army of government officials who were there to keep them up to the mark " . |
| 23 | It might , if close links between banks and firms were the be-all and end-all of the Japanese system . |
| 24 | In an era still almost a decade from the feasibility of spectacle and complex visual effects as substitutes for performance , the actors were the be-all and end-all of dramatic presentation . |
| 25 | l THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Automatic ( WEA BYN 20 ) The Reid brothers ' leather-clad thrashers were the most punk of post-punk groups . |
| 26 | Nor could Chamberlain ever show how a preference within the low tariffs , which were the most that Britain would conceivably tolerate upon her food or raw materials , could make the difference , as he constantly reiterated , between Imperial consolidation and Imperial dissolution . |
| 27 | The interesting question arises : were the several widely acknowledged major episodes of mass extinction in the Phanerozoic caused by exceptional events different in kind from what occurred in the much lengthier intervening periods , or are they merely the spectacular end-members of a whole series ? |
| 28 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 29 | For example both children knew that bricks A and B were the same size , but , when viewed through portholes in a box , A looked bigger to one child and B looked bigger to the partner . |
| 30 | They were the same terms which Dante and the mediaeval jurists insisted on : Virgil was great , was perpetually relevant and in that sense ‘ a classic ’ ( if not , more exactingly , the one indisputable ‘ classic ’ ) , because in him could be found what Dante teased out of him — the vision of Empire , of the divinely appointed imperium , which must be reconciled ( this way and that , for the reconciling was not easy ) with the no less divinely intended ecclesia . |